Still trying to get the login button to work anywhere on the site… Currently I can get the user to the registration screen, and it’s registering them, but then is re-loading the registration screen where I would like them to go to their account or the homepage or something. I’ll figure it out, and if you have time, I’d love your opinion on what I’ve done!

Thanks!

–d

SFC doesn’t “create accounts” of any kind, period. Even the register plugin doesn’t create accounts. It just hooks in to the built in WP code, which creates the account through the normal process. SFC doesn’t add users, it lets the core code add the users, then it hooks them up to FB accounts.

And there’s a bit more to oauth 2 support than just that. However, the trunk version of the code has that oauth support mostly working.

I’m actually working on trying to create a login button that can be put somewhere into the site (sidebar, header, wherever). If I manage to get it working, is there any way I can send you the code to maybe get it added into the SFC plugin?

Also, I notice your JS initialization of the FB object isn’t using “oath: true”, it’s my understanding that this will be required soon, should this be updated?

Thanks for the response!

Are you use you’re using SFC and not some other Facebook plugin? Because SFC doesn’t have the code to do anything you’re describing.

Also, SFC doesn’t “work locally”, so you can’t be using it on a local test environment to begin with.

–d

Just reading over this, hoping that I understand what’s happening.

You have the breakdown as follows:

For existing users:

You click the Login button.
You login to Facebook if needed.
If your email on Facebook matches your email in WordPress, you’re logged in and your account is automatically connected.
If your email doesn’t match, then you can log in normally with WordPress instead, and connect your account manually, on the Users->Your Profile screen.

For new users:

You click the Login button.
You login to Facebook if needed.
If no account can be found for you from the login process, you get redirected to the Register page.
There the Facebook register plugin shows up and lets you register for the WordPress site, using your Facebook credentials. All it asks for is a username and to solve a CAPTCHA (to prevent spam registrations).
You get a new WordPress account, already connected to Facebook for you. It even emails you a password.

I’m working locally at the moment. I clicked the “login” button, logged into my account and WordPress automatically created a new account for me with the username of my Facebook UID. I was not taken to a registration page. Personally, this makes way more sense to me, but it doesn’t appear to be following that break down.

My other question was how difficult would it be to have the login button somewhere in my header, and have the user redirected to the page they are looking at when they login via that button?

Thank you,

–d